Scope and Contents This poem-object-book-work was created by Albert Dupont in tribute to the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Un Coup de Des" by Stephane Mallarme in 1897. A wooden box contains the book with five removable, acrylic cubes positioned on the spine. Each cube is incised and colored in ink on all surfaces with Lettrist symbols or texts. The book consists of a portfolio paper cover and a nine page essay. A second book consists of translucent acetate pages with handdrawn Lettrist symbols and words within a plastic slipcase. A third translucent acetate book is an actual reproduction of "Un Coup de Des." Because of the transparent quality of the pages, it is possible to view the literary text in a deeper, emerging three dimensional form.In homage to Mallarme, Dupont writes, "Since the famous poem 'Un Coup de des n'abolira le hasard', published at the end of the 19th Century, Stephane Mallarme has opened up the field of all the poetic researches of the 20th Century, specially by...

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Broodthaers cancelled text of poem with solid black rectangles to emphasize the typographical design of the poem. The images are printed on opaque paper in this ordinary edition. The cover and page layout follow the 1914 revised version of the poem printed after Mallarme's death but the version he preferred. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Zboya writes that he used a computer progam to manipulate the text of Mallarme's poem to produce "non-Euclidean kernals of meaning." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The German word, Wurfelwurf, meaning throw of the dice, is printed in large capital letters in red, brown, and gray inks as a border around the folded and cut pages of this book. Rather than reprinting Mallarme's Un Coup de Des, Nasshan prints fragments of personal interest along with his impressions of the poem. Here the poem is subservient to Nasshan's creation of an artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.